If we can get enough people to call Labor and the crossbench we can stop Brandis from pushing these changes through and get them to extend the enquiry so our mob can have their say on these matters that affect us.

Today, the interim report from the committee will be tabled in Parliament, today is the time to push for an extension to this inquiry.

As someone who took action to stand up for land rights, I wanted to give you the down low on what’s happened so far:

Brandis gave people 1 week to make submissions (normally submissions are open for at least 3 months), and failed to let most Native Title groups know about it. Then he gave people 24 hours notice to get to the only public hearing in Brisbane.

Since then, over 25,000 people signed the land rights petition and over 10,000 people made a submission to the inquiry (that still haven’t been made public), and on very short notice we hosted an action in Brisbane:

Native Title is crucial to determining what happens on country, and protecting our culture from coal, gas and other mining companies who have a single minded focus of destroying our land.